Motivational Quotes

Music

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Music

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

11.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

12.

Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

13.

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

20.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Morrison, Van

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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

28.

But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

32.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Huxley, Aldous

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

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A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.